Abstract
Users of computer systems create and store valuable personal information in files, email folders, and bookmark collections. For decades, the main principle of interacting with files, emails, and bookmarks has remained unchanged: hierarchical directory trees
with standard (Windows Explorer style) browsers.
Users often have problems both in classifying new items and maintaining a classification hierarchy as such. With files, emails, and bookmarks, users often end up maintaining three parallel classification hierarchies, one in each tool. Over the past thirty years,
a number of alternative personal information management (PIM) tools have emerged, but the typical user is still faced with hierarchical directory structures.
This position paper addresses some of the reasons why modern PIM tools are not widespread and proposes a set of eight requirements for future PIM tools.
with standard (Windows Explorer style) browsers.
Users often have problems both in classifying new items and maintaining a classification hierarchy as such. With files, emails, and bookmarks, users often end up maintaining three parallel classification hierarchies, one in each tool. Over the past thirty years,
a number of alternative personal information management (PIM) tools have emerged, but the typical user is still faced with hierarchical directory structures.
This position paper addresses some of the reasons why modern PIM tools are not widespread and proposes a set of eight requirements for future PIM tools.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Personal information intersections: What happens when PIM spaces overlap? |
| Pages | 60-64 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Event | Personal Information Management 2009: PIM 2009 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 6 Nov 2009 → 11 Nov 2009 |
Conference
| Conference | Personal Information Management 2009 |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title | PIM 2009 |
| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Vancouver |
| Period | 6/11/09 → 11/11/09 |
Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)
- Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)
- Application